HEREAS
QIEU ET MON DROIT
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
PROCLAMATION.
by certain Colonial Regulations it is provided that no Memorials can
be received by the Governors of Her Majesty's Colonies unless couched in proper and respectful language, and WHEREAS, a Memorial has been sent in of a character
directly opposed to respect for the constituted Authorities of this Colony it has been returned to the Memorialists.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, that all Memorials or Petitions pro and respectfully worded will be received by the Governor and Council, and full con- sideration shall be given to the same.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Government House, Victoria,
J. F. DAVIS.
Hongkong, the Second day of November, 1844.
Council Chamber,
Victoria, 2nd November, 1844. GENTLEMEN,Your letter of the 31st ultimo having failed to be delivered till the 1st instant and consequently not till after your second Memorial (in which no reference whatever, was made to it) had been replied to, the Governor and Coun- cil have only this day had an opportunity of considering it.
I am directed on this occasion to acquaint you that the Governor and Council see with surprise and regret a re-asser- tion on your part of the sentiments contained in your former letter and which has already met with the strongest mark they could possibly affix to it of their reprobation.
Could the Governor and Council have foreseen such an unbecoming persistance in the expression of your opinions however veiled by your disavowal of intentional disrespect the Governor and Council would most assuredly have abstain- ed from paying the smallest attention to your second Memo- rial
Under these circumstances the Governor and Council deem it right you should know that all further communi- cation must cease between the Government and yourselves while such sentiments continue to be maintained by you, and that you are indebted wholly to the ignorance of the Governor and Council occasioned by the delay of your letter of the 31st ultimo, for any answer whatever to what now appears to be in fact your third communication.
I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
MESSES. F. A. Gibb,
·D. MATHESON,
S. RAWSON,
P. DUDGEON, AUGS, CARTER.
His
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Excellency the Governor regrets to have received, in an official Report from the Assistant Magistrate of Police the following communication with reference to the suppressed riot.
"My information leads me to believe that other than Chinese influence has been exerted to mature the late movement. The leading part taken by the Compradore of an English Firm; the meeting of Chinese held at the house of that Firm; the intimate knowledge displayed by the Chinese of the proceedings of certain English regard- ing the Registration; and their adoption of precisely simi lar language; would seem to mark most clearly the assistance and co-operation of one or more Englishmen.”
His Excellency the Governor would fain hope, for the sake of the British Character, that none could have been found capable of thus tampering with the Chinese popula- tion; but, as the subject has come officially before him, he deems it necessary to take this public notice of it, and to draw the attention of any who could descend to such un- worthy practices to the consequences entailed on the igno- rant and unfortunate. Chinese, who have been necessarily subjected by the Magistrates to severe punishment.
Conncil Room, November end, 1844.
By order,
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Hongkong, Printed by John Carr, at the “Friend of China," Office.
Clerk of Councils.
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